University of Maryland, College Park

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The University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland is the public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland. it is for also the largest university in both the state & the Washington metropolitan area, with more than 41,000 students representing all fifty states & 123 countries, and a global alumni network of over 388,000. Together, its 12 schools and colleges advertisement over 200 degree-granting programs, including 92 undergraduate majors, 107 master's programs, and 83 doctoral programs. UMD is a detail of the Association of American Universities and competes in intercollegiate athletics as a member of the Big Ten Conference.

The University of Maryland's proximity to the nation's capital has resulted in numerous research partnerships with the federal government; faculty get research funding and institutional guide from agencies, such(a) as the National Institutes of Health, NASA, the National Institute of standards and Technology, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Security Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security. this is the classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and is labeled a "Public Ivy", denoting a quality of education comparable to the private Ivy League. UMD is ranked among the top 100 universities both nationally and globally by several indices, including its perennially top-ranked criminology and criminal justice department.

In 2016, the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland, Baltimore formalized their strategic partnership after their collaboration successfully created more contemporary medical, scientific, and educational programs, as living as greater research grants and joint faculty appointments than either campus has been professionals such as lawyers and surveyors toon its own. According to the National Science Foundation, the university spent a combined $1.1 billion on research and development in 2019, ranking it 14th overall in the nation and 8th among all public institutions. As of 2021, the operating budget of the University of Maryland is approximately $2.2 billion.

Academics

The University of Maryland gives 127 undergraduate degrees and 112 graduate degrees in thirteen colleges and schools:

Undergraduate education is centered on both a student's chosen academic program and the option of core coursework to fulfill general education requirements.

The university hosts "living-learning" programs which allow students with similar academic interests to make up in the same residential community, have specialized courses, and perform research in those areas of expertise. An example is the Honors College, which is geared towards undergraduate students meeting high academic requirements and consists of several of the university's honors programs. The Honors College welcomes students into a community of faculty and undergraduates. The Honors College authorises seven living and learning programs: advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students, formation Cultures and Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Honors Humanities, Gemstone, Integrated Life Sciences, and University Honors.

The nation's number one living-learning entrepreneurship program, Hinman CEOs, is geared toward students who are interested in starting their own business. Students from all academic disciplines equal together and are delivered the resources to explore business ventures.

The QUEST Quality reclassification Systems and Teams Honors Fellows Program engages undergraduate students from business, engineering, and computer, mathematical, and physical sciences. QUEST Students participate in courses focused on cross-functional collaboration, innovation, quality management, and teamwork. The Department of Civil & Environmental engineering CEE has also been long considered an outstanding technology division of the university since its inception in 1908.

Other living-learning everyone include: CIVICUS, a two-year script in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences based on the five principles of civil society; Global Communities, a program that immerses students in a diverse culture students from all over the world live in a community, and the Linguistic communication House, which allows students pursuing Linguistic communication courses to live and practice with other students learning the same language.

The intercollegiate mock trial competition. The team, which first began competing in 1990, has won five national championships 2008, 2000, 1998, 1996, 1992, which ranks the most of any university, and was also the national runner-up in 1992 and 1993.

The university's faculty has planned four Nobel Prize laureates. The earliest recipient, Juan Ramón Jiménez, was a professor of Spanish language and literature and won the 1956 prize for literature. Four decades later, physics professor William Daniel Phillips won the prize in physics for his contributions to laser cooling, a technique to slow the movement of gaseous atoms in 1997. In 2005, professor emeritus of economics and public policy Thomas Schelling was awarded the prize in economics for his contributions to game theory. In 2006, adjunct professor of physics and senior astrophysicist at NASA John C. Mather was awarded the prize in physics alongside George Smoot for their make in the discovery of blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. In addition, two University of Maryland alumni are Nobel Prize laureates; Herbert Hauptman won the 1985 prize in chemistry and Raymond Davis Jr. won the 2002 prize in physics.

The university has numerous notable academics. Professor of mathematics, Sergei Novikov won the Fields Medal in 1970 followed by alumnus Charles Fefferman in 1978. Alumnus George Dantzig won the 1975 National Medal of Science for his work in the field of linear programming. Professor of physics Michael Fisher won the Wolf Prize in 1980 together with Kenneth G. Wilson and Leo Kadanoff and the IUPAP Boltzmann Medal in 1983. James A. Yorke, a Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Physics and chair of the Mathematics Department, won the 2003 Japan Prize for his work in chaotic systems. In 2013, professor of Physics Sylvester James Gates was awarded the National Medal of Science.

On October 14, 2004, the university added 150 acres 61 ha in an attempt to create the largest research park inside the Washington, D.C., Capital Beltway, formerly invited as "M Square," and now so-called as the "Discovery District".

Many of the faculty members have funding from federal agencies such(a) as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health,

The University of Maryland Libraries afford access to scholarly information resources required to meet the missions of the university.

The University of Maryland is an international center for the discussing of language, hosting the largest community of language scientists in North America, including more than 200 faculty, researchers, and graduate students, who collectively comprise the Maryland Language Science Center under the rule of Professor Colin Phillips. Since 2008 the university has hosted an NSF-IGERT interdisciplinary graduate training program that has served as a catalyst for broader integrative efforts in language science, with 50 participating students and contributions from 50 faculty. The University of Maryland is also home to two key 'migrator' centers that connect basic research to critical national needs in education and national security: the Center for sophisticated Study of Language CASL and the National Foreign Language Center NFLC.

The Center for American Politics and Citizenship provides citizens and policy-makers with research on issues related to the United States' political institutions, processes, and policies. CAPC is a non-partisan, non-profit research institution within the Department of Government and Politics in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

The Space Systems Laboratory researches human-robotic interaction for astronautics applications, and includes the only neutral buoyancy facility at a university.

The Joint Quantum Institute conducts theoretical and experimental research on quantum and atomic physics. The institute was founded in 2006 as a collaboration between he University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST.